Dragon Tattoo actor to play villain in Mission: Impossible IV
Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) has been tapped to play the villain for Paramount’s fourth Mission: Impossible film, according to Variety. The Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)-directed espionage thriller is set to begin shooting this fall in ….
Emma Stone circling leads in 21 Jump Street and Spider-Man reboots
Emma Stone, from the recently released Easy A, is circling the female lead in the long in development 21 Jump Street film adaptation, opposite Jonah Hill, according to Variety. The story comes from Hill, along with Michael Bacall, who wrote the script. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs director Phil Lord is set to helm ….
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Moviefone is celebrating 20 years online by giving away 20,000 movie tickets with The Moviefone 20,000 Movie Tickets Giveaway. To enter, simply answer a short list of film-related questions and enter your email address. Then you’ll have a chance to win movie tickets for life.
Annual TromaDance AFM Panel to preview fest and discuss state of indie filmmaking
TromaDance founder Lloyd Kaufman announced that the annual American Film Market’s TromaDance Press Conference will take place this year on November 4, 2010, at 3 pm in the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel Press Room. Now in its 12th year, the TromaDance Film Festival is considered a beacon for truly independent cinema. Each year, the ….
Weta Workshop crafting custom HALO: Reach ATV collectibles for giveaway promotion
Weta Workshop has been asked by Microsoft to customise two 420cc ATVs to look and sound like the Mongoose ATV from the newly released HALO: Reach game. But that’s not the big news. The big news is that they’re being created for an exclusive sweepstakes promotion. To win one of these highly collectible models, purchase ….
We’re celebrating I’m Still Here on VOD by giving away three copies of Two Lovers on DVD
This Friday, September 24th, Magnolia Pictures will premiere the controversial Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’m Still Here on Video-On-Demand. To celebrate the VOD premiere of the Casey Affleck-directed film, FilmFetish is giving away three DVD copies of Joaquin Phoenix’ last film, the romantic drama Two Lovers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and all ….
Warner Bros. nabs spy thriller Unlocked
Warner Bros. has nabbed a spy thriller titled Unlocked from Peter O’Brien and have attached Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Georgina Townsley to produce, according to Variety. Unlocked centers on a female CIA interrogator who’s duped into getting a terrorist to provide critical intel to the wrong side, thrusting her into the middle of a plot ….
Magnet grabs U.S. rights to Takashi Miike’s samurai action film 13 Assassins and releases two bloody photos to prove it
Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Takashi Miike’s epic samurai masterpiece, 13 Assassins. The historical action epic, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, recently had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has just been named as the Closing Night film at this ….
